Quotes About House of Lords

Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.

We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.

The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

The British House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it.

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

I do strongly believe myself that members of the government who sit in the House of Lords should be accountable to the elected House because otherwise there is a democratic deficit, and that is wrong.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.